An essential component of any area of scholarly research is articles published
in scholarly journals. This is true for military doctrine as well as for other subjects. Performing effective scholarly research on any subject involves thoroughly
searching for individual journal article citations on this subject, and this is best
accomplished by searching print indexes or electronic databases rather than perusing bookshelves for articles. Some indexes are freely available on the Internet
and their Web site URLs are listed below. Other indexes are produced by commercial companies and may be available in selected academic and public libraries. An
example of a freely available periodical index is the Air University Library Index to
Military Periodicals, produced by Air University Library at Maxwell Air Force Base
in Alabama. This long-standing military science literature index covers 1988–
present and is freely accessible at http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS3260.

This index features detailed citations and links to subject headings for additional research. Upon retrieving citations from this and other databases, users will
need to check their local libraries to see if they have paper or electronic copies of
the articles cited in these resources.

America: History and Life, produced by ABC-CLIO, indexes articles, book
chapters, books, and dissertations on American and Canadian history from 1450
to the present. It will be available in many academic libraries and general information on it is available at http://www.abc-clio.com/.

EBSCO’s Military and Government Collections is another resource produced
by a prominent libraries serial vendor. It provides full-text access to articles from
nearly three hundred journals and periodicals, along with numerous pamphlet
resources with retrospective coverage that dates back to the mid–1980s. General
information on this is accessible at http://www.ebsco.com/.

ABC-CLIO also produces the database Historical Abstracts, which indexes
articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations on national and international

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